GIMP?!

Short tutorial. \

 

Awesome Soa, going to be quite handy for moi :.

wow, you just explained something that i've been tryign to figure out for like a week, in what, a min? meanie : thx

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First tutorial in 6 months. D:

Needs to maek moar you lazy tard ;).

That's really nice. I'll try this in... *dramatic music* PhotoShop! :uhh:

PS can do it, just pick any hard round brush and set the strength to 95%.

 

Soa knows all. \

Op CwAl-Ka gave me the exact advice. :thumbsup:

Gud, will definitely point some newcomers in the direction of this if they ask for links to good tutorials.

I tried this and failed. :P

Looks like a good tut, shame I'm not a GIMP user :lol:

Looks like a good tut, shame I'm not a GIMP user :lol:

 

 

 

i have actually a number of reasons gimp pwns photoshop.

 

 

 

1. Its free. I mean you don't have to pay for it...but....That's stealing :shame:

 

2.Gimp can save in a ton more file types than Photoshop, create fractals, and basic vectors, using paths and saving as an svg.

 

3. Building onto #3 Gimp can actually operate in .psds, as well as heaps more files. It can operate in Paint.Net as well I think.

 

4. Gimp, while not being as streamlined as Photoshop, has more literal names. For people like me, it was easier to get grips

 

 

 

That's mah 2 cents.

mann i have been trying to figure out this technique for ever! ZOMG thank youuu

 

 

 

EDIT: you have to be pretty good a smudging in order to make it look good though :P

 

 

 

Tried my hand at smudging your star thing in photoshop. I only have a few questions:

 

 

 

 

 

- At what part do you think its a good time to smudge? I found that smudging a plain color item just doesn't work and looks horrible.

 

 

 

- Any use for any other smudge settings, brushes, ect?

 

 

 

 

 

Cool mini tutorial, it did explain a bit of what I was interested in. To everyone else I found that if you constantly (but slowly) move the smudged bit back and forth you can add more depth to it and make it look better.

 

 

 

 

 

I'll def be trying this technique on my next sig :)

 

 

 

[edit] Just tried it a bit in a sig and I just can't get the image could to start smudging well. It always ends up looking like crap ;p.

 

 

 

[edit 2] Just tried again from scratch... kind of getting the hang of it.

 

 

 

 

I did use brighter colors though so no doubt it turned out a lot different. Still this is all pretty much smudging and a few Clipping masks + brushing... just trying to get the hang of this. I kind of have the smudging idea down, I just need to get the right stuff to smudge ;p

 

 

 

Just trying to figure out how to do less cartoony smudging now.

I like that last one, the green looks really cool there. I have never managed to get good smudge settings in PS to be honest.

 

wow, you just explained something that i've been tryign to figure out for like a week, in what, a min? meanie : thx

 

Same here, I reallly suck at smudging. :-#

 

 

 

Tried my hand at smudging your star thing in photoshop. I only have a few questions:

 

 

 

 

 

- At what part do you think its a good time to smudge? I found that smudging a plain color item just doesn't work and looks horrible.

 

 

 

- Any use for any other smudge settings, brushes, ect?

 

 

 

 

 

Cool mini tutorial, it did explain a bit of what I was interested in. To everyone else I found that if you constantly (but slowly) move the smudged bit back and forth you can add more depth to it and make it look better.

 

 

 

 

 

I'll def be trying this technique on my next sig :)

 

 

 

[edit] Just tried it a bit in a sig and I just can't get the image could to start smudging well. It always ends up looking like crap ;p.

 

 

 

[edit 2] Just tried again from scratch... kind of getting the hang of it.

 

 

 

 

I did use brighter colors though so no doubt it turned out a lot different. Still this is all pretty much smudging and a few Clipping masks + brushing... just trying to get the hang of this. I kind of have the smudging idea down, I just need to get the right stuff to smudge ;p

 

 

 

Just trying to figure out how to do less cartoony smudging now.

 

 

 

My advice is just never use chalk brush.

 

Looks good.

Wow, very nice. I've never actually smudged anything before...time to over-smudge a sig! Wewt!

Can make yourself a nice avvy with a supernova.

 

 

- At what part do you think its a good time to smudge? I found that smudging a plain color item just doesn't work and looks horrible.

 

 

 

- Any use for any other smudge settings, brushes, ect?

 

 

- Could be a background/ effects/ render/ or a sig entirely based on smudging <- good for sprites.

 

 

 

- Splatter brushes with the same settings works really well. I don't really like jitter or scatter because it's messy and looks rushed.

My advice is just never use chalk brush.

 

Looks good.

It's one of the best brushes ever, to make it less grungy you just boost the roundness and angle jitter up :thumbup:.

Is it a big no no to use a soft brush to smudge? Thats what I use.

Well I usually use a softbrush to blend colors, then use a hard brush for the detail.

 

Soft smudging looks novice most of the time. \

Pepper brush owns too btw. I use sparks brush for my lighting and and smudge it with that.